#51
Posted: 6/1/06 at 12:11pm
Everyone keeps saying of Bernadette's performance, "she acted the **** out of the role" and I'll agree on that, but most of you mean it as a compliment. She did act the **** out of the role. Man, I have never seen an actor working so damn hard to try to tear through herself to find that role deep down inside. She worked her a$$ off up there. But to no avail. As Brantley put it, this is a role she was not born to play. Bernadette is an acting and singing legend and there is no debate as to that. But all of the acting and singing skills in the world--for this actress--would never be enough to pull off this role.
The problem with Bernadette Peters is that, even at her age, she usually comes across as a child dressed up in her mother's clothing. She didn't start out that way but somewhere along the line took a wrong turn. I see Kristin Chenoweth on the same road.
Agreed. She has yet to win acclaim playing a serious adult role as an aged adult. She is 50+ and GYPSY was an attempt to try to fit a type of role that she has been playing against for years.
The Mendes GYPSY was incredibly poorly cast except for Peters and the strippers, so she had a harder row to hoe than Daly, who was surrounded by the perfect company.
Not that I don't agree about the casting, but I think the cheif weakness was Mendes's direction. He could have brought out in Tammy Blanchard and John Dossett what was necessary to find the heart in their roles, but it seems like most of his character coaching time was spent on Bernadette, because everyone else did very much come across as a blank slate. It looks like the other actors were just told to find their own way. So you can't totally blame them.
The problem with Bernadette Peters is that, even at her age, she usually comes across as a child dressed up in her mother's clothing. She didn't start out that way but somewhere along the line took a wrong turn. I see Kristin Chenoweth on the same road.
Agreed. She has yet to win acclaim playing a serious adult role as an aged adult. She is 50+ and GYPSY was an attempt to try to fit a type of role that she has been playing against for years.
The Mendes GYPSY was incredibly poorly cast except for Peters and the strippers, so she had a harder row to hoe than Daly, who was surrounded by the perfect company.
Not that I don't agree about the casting, but I think the cheif weakness was Mendes's direction. He could have brought out in Tammy Blanchard and John Dossett what was necessary to find the heart in their roles, but it seems like most of his character coaching time was spent on Bernadette, because everyone else did very much come across as a blank slate. It looks like the other actors were just told to find their own way. So you can't totally blame them.
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"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
Updated On: 6/1/06 at 12:11 PM
